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(No Model.)

H.-O. BABGOOK.

HARNESS PAD 0R LINING.

Patented May 5', 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOLLAND C. BABCOCK, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TC PLINY JEWELL, LYMAN B. J EVVELL, AND CHARLES A. JEVVELL,

ALL OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,073, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed August 25, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOLLAND O. BABCOCK, of Hartford, in the countyof Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and 5 useful Improvements on Harness Pads or Linings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had 10 to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a horse- 1 collar with one form of my pad attached. Fig. 2 is a detail "perspective view of one form of my improved pad, shown 011 enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same device that is shown in Fig. 2, with the lining reversed.

2 Fig. 4 is a detail View in cross-section of a horse-collar and a connected pad, illustrating the means used to hold thepad in place on the collar. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a part of the strap, showing the sliding hook. Fig. 6 is a 2 perspective View of a collar pad or lining for covering the back and sides of the neck of a horse.

The object of my invention is to provide a pad or removable lining for a horse-collar,that

0 may be used during different seasons of the year, and to accomplish widely-different objects; and it consists in a removable pad having one side or bearing-face made of oil-fin ished rawhideand the other side of sheepskin,

3 the parts being united, as by sewing; and it further consists in the combination of such a pad with means for holding it in place.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes ahorse-collar of ordinary construction;

40 b, one form of my improved pad, that is made up of a layer, a, of oil-finished rawhide, that forms one face of the pad, and a layer, d, of sheepskin, that forms the opposite side of the pad. This pad is circular or oval in outline 5 and of a size sufficient to enable it,when fastened to the inside of a horse-collar, as shown in Fig. 1, to cover and protect the back of the neck of the horse to prevent galling. This pad b is crimped to the shape substantially as illus- (No model.)

having the hooks f, the endslof which are inserted into the eyelet-openings in the pad, and these runners are so arranged upon the strap as to hold the pad from slipping around on the collar. The body of this runner is bent lengthwise, and is made up of the side. pieces and three transverse bars, under and over which the strap is passed, as shown in the drawings, insuch manner as to prevent-the runner'from slipping along the strap when the latter is drawn tight.

When the pad is attached to the collar in a position to make the rawhide the bearing-surface on the neck of the horse, the pad is attached to the runners f by the eyelets b b; but when the pad isreversed, so as to make the sheep skin side the bearing-face, the runners are hooked into the eyelet-openings I) I). This change in position of the points of attachment bends upward the edges at points where it was before bent downward, and turns the pad around about ninety degrees. This construction enables me to use apad that is set .or formed to shape without destroying that set, by using the article so that it may present its opposite faces as bearing-surfaces.

In Fig. 6 I illustrate an alternate form of the pad that is designed to cover the back and sides of the neck to any desired extent, and this pad 5/ is made up, like the pad b,with its faces of rawhide and sheepskin, respectively. These layers are fastened together by means of stitching at convenient intervals or along the edge.

The main advantage of my improved pad is that it presents in convenient form for use an elastic and water-proof pad that has warming or cooling and healing surfaces, either of which I 2. In combination, the reversible pad 6, commay be readily changed for the other by simply posed of the opposite facing-layers of rawhide reversing the pad. and sheepskin, formed to shape with alternate I claim as my invention and opposite upturned and downturned edges,

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a t and bearing the eyelets at opposite points, b reversible collar-pad having its opposite faces I) and b b, and a strap, e, bearing the runner composed of oil-finished rawhide and sheepf, with the hooks f, all substantially as deskin, respectively, formed to shape with alterscribed. nate and opposite upturned and downturned HOLLAND O. BABGOCK. edges, and bearing means, substantially as de- Vitnesses:

scribed, for attaching it to a collar, all substantially as described.

Grills. L. BURDETT, E. F. DIMOCK. 

